they both came to
America with the troupe. Liebgold remained there
due to the outbreak of the Second World War, and
he acted in 1940 with a cooperative union troupe
in Chicago, in 1941 with a cooperative union
troupe in Detroit. In 1943 he became a member in
the Yiddish Actors Union and became engaged in
New York's Second Avenue Theatre. From 1943
until 1946 he served in the American army in the
"Counter-Intelligence Core."
After returning from
the army he acted in New York and across the
country until 1954, then traveled with his wife
to guest-star in Argentina, where he had, for
the first time, performed on 30 eptember 1954 in
the Soleil Theatre, in an operetta of Wolf
Julian's adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's "Grine
Felder (Green Fields)" (music by Sholom
Secunda), in Brazil and in the land of Israel.
Since 1955 he has acted in New York, and has in
1958 and in 1959 went on a tour across America
for the Yiddish National Farband. Liebgold in the
summer months was a staff member in the troupes
of the various Yiddish camps.
Liebgold participated in
the following films: "Yidl mitn fidl" (with
Molly Picon), "Der dybuk" (with Morevsky), "Tuviya
der milkhiger" (with Maurice Schwartz), and "Kol
Nidre" (with Cantor Leybele Valdman).
Liebgold was
vice-president and then president of the Yiddish
Actors Union in America.
Sh. E.
form Mordecai Yachson.
